Re: [TIED] Reanimating Indoeuropean?

From: Danny Wier
Message: 2724
Date: 2000-06-22

>From: "Manuel Rosario"

>But the most attracting idea for me is to reanimate IE and try to adapt it
>to modern life. Why not? Personally I taught my 5 years old daughter with
>some PIE elements (without any advocation to grammar) and surprisingly for
>me, she learnt with almost no mistake. She doesn't know that PIE is no
>longer alive. I'm just an amateur therefore I'm not the right teacher.

Yeah, why not? What I'd do is first actively promote the "classical"
languages: Latin, Greek, Sanskrit. Maybe Old Irish, Old Church Slavonic,
Avestan, Gothic and Classical Armenian too.

Then, when everybody's got a taste of languages we know everything about,
get 'em interested in PIE.

But I'd also promote Semitic, Egyptian, Kartvelian, Turkic, Dravidian etc.
awareness as well. Why stop with PIE?

Daniel A. Wier ����
Lufkin, Texas USA
http://communities.msn.com/DannysDoubleWideontheWeb
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